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A Bright Shining Lie
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A Bright Shining Lie: John Paul Vann and America in Vietnam (1988) is a book by Neil Sheehan, a former New York Times reporter, about U.S. Army lieutenant colonel John Paul Vann (killed in action) and the United States' involvement in the Vietnam War . Sheehan was awarded the 1988 National Book Award for Nonfiction and the 1989 Pulitzer Prize ...
- Neil Sheehan
- 1988
Sep 19, 1989 · Neil Sheehan’s work “A Bright Shining Lie” is a deeply profound and insightful biography of the people and events that drew the U.S. into the national morass of Vietnam. His detailed references to the painful truths ignored by the highest levels of military leadership documents the many fantasies associated with the strategic thinking of ...
- Neil Sheehan
- $11.49
- Vintage
Sep 1, 1988 · A Bright, Shining Lie by Neil Sheehan is an erudite, well-informed and exhaustive narrative of the Vietnam War. Sheehan provides a complete modern history of Vietnam, from the French Colonial period beginning in the 1850s to the end of French rule, particularly the period of Ho Chih Minh’s rise to power after World War II. As a reporter on the ground in the 1960s, he also provides a detailed ...
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- Paperback
In telling one man’s story [ A Bright Shining Lie] sets out to define the fatal contradictions that lost America the war in Vietnam. It belongs to the same order of merit as Dispatches, The Best and the Brightest, and Fire in the Lake .” –Robert Stone, Washington Post Book World “A compelling, graphic, and deeply sensitive biography ...
- Paperback
"It is difficult to believe that anyone will write a more gripping or important book on America's war in Vietnam than A Bright Shining Lie, a towering book that has been 16 years in the making. . . . Sheehan shows, perhaps more convincingly than anyone else who has written on the subject, that our intervention in Vietnam was in fact a terrible ...
- $12.99
- Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group
One of the most acclaimed books of our time—the definitive Vietnam War exposé and the winner of the Pulitzer Prize and the National Book Award.When he came to Vietnam in 1962, Lieutenant Colonel John Paul Vann was the one clear-sighted participant in an enterprise riddled with arrogance and self-deception, a charismatic soldier who put his life and career on the line in an attempt to ...
A Bright Shining Lie: John Paul Vann and America in Vietnam (Pulitzer Prize Winner) Neil Sheehan. Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group, Sep 19, 1989 - History - 896 pages.
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